The 61st Annual Grammy Awards befell on Sunday, February 10 on the STAPLES Center in Los Angeles. The yearly “In Memoriam” section, celebrating musicians and notable music business people who’ve died, included figures equivalent to Aretha Franklin, Mac Miller, and Avicii. Notable exclusions from this 12 months’s televised section included XXXTentacion, Buzzcocks’ Pete Shelley, Frightened Rabbit’s Scott Hutchison, Pegi Young, Richard Swift, and Anticon co-founder Alias.
XXXTentacion, Shelley, Hutchison, Young, Swift, Alias, and lots of others are on a longer list of artists that the Recording Academy posted Sunday. This 12 months’s listing additionally consists of the Fall’s Mark E. Smith, who was omitted last year, in addition to Dolores O’Riordan and Hugh Masekela, who have been each honored throughout final 12 months’s ceremony.
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